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" Physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium / "
Sun Kwok.
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BL
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857542
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Kwok, S., (Sun)
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Physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium /\ Sun Kwok.
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| Publication Statement
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Sausalito, Calif. :: University Science Books,, ©2007.
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xiii, 569 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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1891389467
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: 9781891389467
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-558) and index.
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| Contents
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The interstellar medium -- Fundamental concepts of radiation -- Measurements of radiation -- Photoionization and recombination -- Line radiation from atoms and ions -- Continuum radiation in the gas phase -- Interstellar molecules -- Vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules -- Molecular excitation and abundance determination -- Interstellar grains: physical processes -- The chemical composition of interstellar and circumstellar grains -- Carbonaceous grains -- The orgin of interstellar dust -- Chemical reactions in the ISM -- Gas dynamics, gravitational collapse, and stellar winds -- Interaction between stars and the interstellar medium -- Beyond the galaxy.
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"This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium. Radiation mechanisms are comprehensively presented, and extensive examples are drawn from observations in the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, mm/sub mm, and radio observations. This book goes beyond a phenomenological study of the interstellar medium to give a detailed quantitative treatment of the radiative and dynamical interactions between stars and the interstellar medium. With an emphasis on a physical understanding of these processes, the mathematical derivations are clean, elegant and easily understandable by anyone with an undergraduate background in physics."--Publisher's website.
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Astrophysics, Textbooks.
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Cosmochemistry, Textbooks.
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Interstellar matter, Textbooks.
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Astrophysics.
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Cosmochemistry.
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Interstellar matter.
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523.1/135
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QB790.K96 2007
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